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A '''Delivery Bar Code Sorter''' ('''DBCS''') is a [[mail sorting machine]] used primarily by the [[United States Postal Service]]. Introduced in 1990, these machines sort [[Letter (message)|letters]] at a rate of approximately 36,000 pieces per hour,<ref name=MeisenzahlBI>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-mail-sorting-machines-how-they-work-in-photos-2020-8|title=The machines USPS is removing from distribution centers can sort more than 36,000 pieces of mail per hour. Here's how they work.|first=Mary|last=Meisenzahl|website=Business Insider|date=16 Aug 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817044127/https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-mail-sorting-machines-how-they-work-in-photos-2020-8|archivedate=17 Aug 2020}}</ref> with a 99% accuracy rate. A computer scans the addresses of the [[mail]], and sorts it to one of up to 286 pockets, setting it up for delivery by the letter carrier.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=States|first1=United|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=opAbAUwd7mwC&pg=PA594&dq=Delivery+bar+code+sorter|title=Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4539 ....|last2=Government|first2=United States Congress Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General|date=1995|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-046507-9|language=en}}</ref><br />
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